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Comment by dragandj | Hacker News Reader

Wait a minute. Microsoft did something to deceive the users of its "free" Visual Studio? Why this does not surprise me...

I can understand why people used Visual Studio 20 years ago - decent free alternatives were lacking. But in 2016? And no less than for markdown!

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What alternatives are there? Just recently there was a HN story about a great add-on for Emacs that would find the definition of a symbol. That's been in VS for a decade or two but open source editors apparently don't have it. Same goes for renaming things and having them automatically renamed everywhere else. Background compiler that underlines and even corrects your errors as you type - what else does that?

> Just recently there was a HN story about a great add-on for Emacs that would find the definition of a symbol. That's been in VS for a decade or two but open source editors apparently don't have it.

ctags has existed since 1979, which is almost 40 years ago. The thing you read about implements a different way to find definitions.

The IntelliJ IDEA Open Source edition?

1. It is a third party plugin. 2. VSCode is OSS 3. VSCode != VisualStudio. Conclusion: You clearly dislike Microsoft and hence confirmation bias has lead you to post an inflammatory comment without even reading the article.

Have you read the comments? Who is the author of that "3-rd party" plugin? No connections with Microsoft?

It would help inform your discussion of the article if you read the first paragraph. A) This is VS Code, not Visual Studio, B) This is a third party open source plugin

It’s not third party – the dev is a microsoft employee, managing the VS Code team.

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